Software for CDRW/DVD

[C HARKNESS]

I have a 3 year old Dell running Win XP SP2 which had Samsung SM-348b
CDRW/DVD combo drive.
I have been running Battlefield2 game and had periodic shut-downs. I ran
Dell Crash Analysis Tool which told me that the problem was with Application
Drivers cduf_xp.sys which is from Sonic Solutions and is part of Sonic's
Record Now. When I ran Dell Driver Reset Tool, it indicated that there were
no driver errors. Device Manager for the Samsung SM-348b CDRW/DVD combo
drive (over 3 years old) indicated the drivers were from Microsoft. I
believe the Sonic Now software was use to run the game from the CDRW/DVD.

Before I could fix the problem, the CDRW/DVD died and I have now replaced
it. The new drive came with software from Nero. After installing the new
drive, I tried playing the game which worked for a while, but then it
crashed as before. I ran the tools above and got the same messages. My
question is what determines what software is used to run a CDRW/DVD when a
game is played (set to autorun)? I have other software which are newer and
may be more compatible with Win XP and the game (Roxio and Nero as well as
Microsoft and Dell).

Your help is appreciated.
Charles Harkness

 

[You Know Who ~]

Neither software is actually being used, but the drivers might be, though
usually its just the standard windows drivers that come into use for just
playing a game (as opposed to writing to a drive). That being said, I have
found that Sonic Solutions isn't the best software and would much prefer
Nero. Note though that its hard to un-install Sonic. It appears to
uninstall itself, but it leaves the drivers and it leaves reference to the
drivers in the windows registry.

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YKW~

"When the fifteen dwarves had dwindled to eight.....
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[C HARKNESS]

Thanks,

The Sonic software was a much older version and the Nero was fairly new, so
I uninstalled the Sonic. I also ran a registry cleaner which did a good job
of cleaning the residual registry entries. So far, the game has run
without shutting down. This may work until I can replace the graphics card.

Thanks again,
Charlie